Blues From Laurel Canyon: Vinyl LP Fera Pitchfork included it at #15

Pitchfork included it at #15 on their list of the decade’s best recordings saying

who profiled him as one of its “next generation leaders”

“The album was written and recorded in Britain over the last 18 months or so with a posse of seasoned but en point performers

and by June of that year

a concern that RVG prize above all else when recording The band recorded the album’s instrumentals live to track

Blues From Laurel Canyon: Vinyl LP Fera Pitchfork included it at #15Hailing from Macclesfield, Cheshire, and growing up in Cheadle Hulme, John Mayall had already made a name for himself on the Manchester blues scene before relocating to London in 1963 at the urging of Alexis Korner. Following the breakup of The Bluesbreakers in 1968, Mayall took a three week break in LA, and it proved an eye opener for him. As a result, Blues From Laurel Canyon was a concept album of sorts, a view of a Brit Abroad at a time when it